Scientists struggle to probe COVID’s origins amid sparse data from China
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00732-0
We may never get a satisfactory answer, but we can still work to prevent future pandemics. Here’s a few options for improving safety in laboratories AND preventing natural spillovers:
https://www.vox.com/22527717/covid-19-lab-leak-debate-natural-spillover-pandemic-prevention
Amy Maxmen, who said she's never met Peter Daszak, sat next to Peter Daszak when "Peter Daszak in 2016 gives the rationale for work by his colleagues in China on manipulating the coronavirus spike protein to see if they can infect human cells."
The individual on Daszak's right is W. Ian Lipkin, one of the Proximal Origins authors.
Lipkin has a rather puzzled look on his face when Daszak says that he didn't do the work. It was his colleagues that did it.
Lipkin, from the Vanity Fair article, "Lipkin was added as a fifth author on the Proximal Origin letter. On February 11, 2020, ahead of publication, he emailed a coauthor to say that a draft provided “a plausible argument against genetic engineering” but did “not eliminate the possibility of inadvertent release” through routine laboratory work cultivating a virus at the WIV. He added, “Given the scale of the bat CoV research pursued there and the site of emergence of the first human cases we have a nightmare of circumstantial evidence to assess.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4995877/user-clip-ecohealth-alliance-daszak-2016-describing-chinas-colleagues-work-coronavirus-spikeMaxmen then cites 3 pre-print articles. One authored by several China CDC members, among others, and the other 2 include 4 of the Proximal Origin authors.
Re the Vox article.
Rule #1: If gain of function research is halted in the U.S., don't fund gain of function research in China.
Rule #2: see rule #1.
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